Weltspiegel Kino, Cinema heritage building in Cottbus, Germany.
Weltspiegel Kino is a cinema building in Cottbus with three screening rooms of different sizes. The main hall accommodates approximately 500 visitors, while two smaller auditoriums each have around 80 seats and feature modern digital 3D projection technology.
The first permanent cinema room in Cottbus opened in 1907 at Neumarkt 5. The Weltspiegel was built in 1911 for Paul Schneider's Lichtspiel-Gesellschaft, designed by Paul Thiel and completed by Schmidt & Arnold. It opened on 4 October 1911 with 780 seats. The first sound film in Cottbus was shown here on 29 May 1929.
The name Weltspiegel, German for "world mirror", comes from the Photographische Gesellschaft Weltspiegel founded by Paul Schneider in 1907, from which the Lichtspiel-Gesellschaft Weltspiegel emerged in 1911. Since reopening in November 2006 the house has shown mainly arthouse films alongside cabaret and music events, occupying a niche between the region's multiplex and municipal cinemas.
The cinema opens thirty minutes before the first screening of the day. Visitors should arrive with enough time to orient themselves in the building and find their seats.
The attic relief reading "Weltspiegel" crowns the central risalit, which projects above the roofline and is opened at the entrance hall by two tall coffered round arches. Three pilaster strips with late-baroque cartouche bands mark it vertically, and putti stand on ram-head consoles in the stepped cornice. The plaster facade follows the plot boundary in a convex curve.
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